On 5/19/2010 7:08 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 19/05/2010, P. J. Alling<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
Shaker furniture is still crafts, a high level of crafts but still crafts.
To call them art debases them. To display shaker furniture in glass cases
and not use it for their intended purpose misses the point. The original
makers would be appalled.
I wonder if Picasso would be thrilled or appalled to learn that a
single painting of his making fetched a cool $A116.2 million,
approximately 194x the median Sydney house price (which is about 1/10
of the median NSW household income)?
I think he'd laugh all the way to the bank. Near the end of his life
he'd scrawl a couple of lines on a napkin, sign it and sell it for a
couple Hundred Thousand Dollars. It may be apocryphal, but I've heard
he always paid with Checks as no one ever cashed them.
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